THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK

Registered charity 1141663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GMA, THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION

To support educational excellence by providing grants and funding to students in India.

Objects

A. The purpose of The Association shall be to centralise, co-ordinate and encourage the members to meet the religious, cultural, educational, social and economic needs of Urdu speaking Muslims of Gujarat State, India, presently settled in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.B. In particular, The Association is established:1) To advance the educational, social, economic and religious needs, in particular of Urdu speaking Muslims of Gujarat State, India, presently settled in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.2) To advance Sunni Islamic Education.3) To relieve poverty, sickness and distress.

Area of benefit: GUJARAT STATE, INDIA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Nuneaton and Bedworth, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£93k
Latest spending
£109k
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £15,361 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in net assets decreasing from £311,000 to £295,640. The trustees report that 100% of collected donations were sent to support students in India, with only a proportion of rental income retained as reserves for property repairs. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with accounting records or the Charities Act 2011.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: a proportion amount from the rent income as a reserve for any emergency major repair works for the properties (reserves figure: £296k)
“From the rental income from our properties, we normally keep a proportion amount from the rent income as a reserve for any emergency major repair works for the properties.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 12

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 29
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 10/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 24
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 10/03/2023 (received 11/01/2024, 1 day after the 10/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: India · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£93k£109k
31/03/2024£97k£77k
10/03/2023£92k£86k
31/03/2022£100k£7k
31/03/2021£69k£157k

Common questions

Is THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £15,361 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in net assets decreasing from £311,000 to £295,640. The trustees report that 100% of collected donations were sent to support students in India, with only a proportion of rental income retained as reserves for property repairs. The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention regarding compliance with accounting records or the Charities Act 2011. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK as a grant recipient include BAIG WELFARE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
BAIG WELFARE FOUNDATIONFY2022£250

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
FUNDERS IN GOOD1£92k
HURDALE CHARITY LIMITED1£25k
BIG BEN TRUST1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GLOUCESTER MUSLIM WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE GUJARAT MUSLIM ASSOCIATION UK£93k—0unclear—no doubt
THE GLOUCESTER MUSLIM WELFARE ASSOCIATION LIMITED FY2025£186k—0unclear—no doubt
ANJUMAN-E-ISLAHUL MUSLIMEEN OF UK FY2025£976k—0unclear—no doubt
MUSLIM SCOUT FELLOWSHIP FY2025£499k—0below—no doubt
ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM SCHOOLS UK FY2025£191k—0unclear—no doubt
GUR TRUST FY2025£134k—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.